I took videos on my phone for about an hour of people climbing 30ft statues to wave catalan flags and the cars racing through the streets like rally drivers. I'm only amazed no one was run over.

I do really love going to Perpignan, rugby crazy whichever code and very welcoming.

We missed all that as we'd been staying in Canet plage and didn't arrive in Perpignan until the Saturday morning.
They are fanatical about sport certainly know how to celebrate. I'll never forget Narbonne after the World cup Semi final?? it was mental; there were people hanging out of car windows/sunroofs/boots the lot.

the night USAP won the french championship in 2009 was the same day as the Catalans v Rhinos game - the RL game ended in time for the locals to watch the RU game live from Paris - they had a big screen in front Le Castillet - must have been 5000 people in the square ! brilliant night !

What was 2010 when FC where there... a semi-final?

now that WAS crackers. Went on for hours too. I think they were still going at 3/4 in the morning

yeh,must have been a semi final - definitely wasn't the final - I was at the FC game in Perpignan and can't recall that many celebrations but I recall it was impossible to find somewhere to eat plus it was pretty cold so most people were probably indoors keeping warm...
For the final,when Toulouse won the french RU,I was at at Toulouse for a TO game maybe against Batley IIRC in early may.there was an early ko if I recall to make it easier for the french fans to see both games.

hope that makes some sense !